In the Shadow of Akimbo Corporatism: Arched Athleticism and the Becoming-Human of ‘a People’

Golding, Johnny (2016) In the Shadow of Akimbo Corporatism: Arched Athleticism and the Becoming-Human of ‘a People’. Deleuze Studies, 10 (2). pp. 263-279. ISSN 1750-2241

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Abstract

The importance of Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari's development of ‘encounter’ is brought into sharp relief as key to the notion of ‘athleticism’. Here, each is developed as indispensable to the other, forming an a-radical/ana-material groundless ground to power, politics, literary sensibility, indeed sense itself. This nuanced encounter produces an acephaletic knowledge, a body-knowledge, without the Ego-I. In an age of massifying systems, drone warfare and horrific migrations, where corporate tentacles bend the rules akimbo, one finds that this turn to a Deleuzian athleticism offers a different kind of political analysis, a radical difference, which, despite (or because of) the odds, enables a politics of hope and indeed, of a ‘becoming-human’.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.3366/dls.2016.0224
Dates:	Date Event April 2016 Published
Subjects:	CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-01 - creative arts and design > CAH25-01-05 - others in creative arts and design
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of Art and Design
Depositing User:	Users 18 not found.
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2016 11:34
Last Modified:	03 Mar 2022 15:59
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3541

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